burst

Object

• bubble: Have a long bath with bubbles in the morning; she enjoys bursting the bubbles with her tongue.

Preposition: at

• seam: And by now there was a whole new wave of Brighton bands and punk venues, which were bursting at the seams.

Preposition: into

• tear: N bursts into tears & N isn't too happy, oddly enough.
• flame: On her second day at school, one of her cursed subjects bursts into flames.
• laughter: In spite of my dangerous circumstances, I was near bursting into laughter.
• applause: The parent's half of the room burst into spontaneous applause; ' Yes!
• bloom: In the spring, as flowers burst into bloom, they fill the air with pollen.

Adjective modifier

• sudden: There was a sudden burst of gas from a side working in the five-feet seam.
• staccato: A short staccato burst from the bass is followed by vocals and percussion heralding the song in.

Modifies a noun

• pipe: I would have hoped your tenants would be sensible enough not to want burst pipes damaging their goods.
• eardrum: On returning home he attended Whipps Cross Hospital where a burst eardrum was diagnosed.

Noun used with modifier

• gamma-ray: No such obstacle is present in the gamma-ray burst case, where no dominant model exists.
• gamma: The group is part of the EU gamma ray burst network.
• bubble: And when a bubble bursts, prices often plunge far beyond what looks like fair value.
• ray: The group is part of the EU gamma ray burst network.
• dotcom: And since the dotcom bubble burst, itâs been getting harder than ever.

Preposition: of

• laughter: Through bursts of laughter, even the university students learned from the elementary students.
• applause: A minute later, there was another burst of applause.
• bubble: Certainly one of the most interesting and dynamic companies to survive the bursting of the dot-com bubble is Google.
• fragrance: Scratch ' em and sniff ' em for a burst of fragrance!